Southern Maidenhair
Adiantum Capillus-Veneris
Zhu Zong Cao

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Part(s) used

Whole herb

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

To clear heat and resolve toxin, disinhibit water and free strangury.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

Common cold with fever, lung heat cough, damp-heat diarrhea, dysentery, strangury-turbidity, vaginal discharge, mammary welling abscess, scrofula, poisonous snake bite.